Katelynn + Gymnastics = Love

Sorry for the super long post, but I decided to post all of Katelynn's gymnastic meets in one blog post instead of 5.(:  This was Katelynn's first year of competing in gymnastics and I have to say, I loved it!  It was so fun to watch her perform and love every minute of it!  She had lots of family and friends come and see her compete at different meets so it was a lot of fun.  My friend Karla's daughter, Lexi competed with Kate, so Karla and I were at every meet.  I'm glad I had someone fun to sit by at all of the meets.


Kate and the owner of the gym, Rich




Kamri, Camille and Whit at the West Jordan Competition




Kate's team took 3rd at this meet





Kate's friend Natalie, aunt Lindsay, Kate, Grandma Robbins and London at the Springville meet.

  When we arrived at the North Ogden meet, there was a sign that said "Welcome all Aliens."  We seriously thought we were in the wrong place.  Well, we weren't.(:  This lady totally decked out like an alien pulled up and told us we were in the right spot.  It was kind of a crazy day, but fun too.


All I'm going to say, is that at one point, this frisby hit me in my face...hard.(:




Kate and Lexi




Just had to add the picture of the alien woman!  Good Times!




Dalaney and Ashlyn




This was the North Ogden Meet, and their team took first.





The Gym moms...Karla and me.(:




Grandma Smith came to the Midvale and the S.L.C. Competition




One proud mama



 The final State competition was held in Park City.  Karla and I took the girls out of school early and headed up to do some shopping...have I told you how much I LOVE the Park City Outlets!?!


After getting lost...we finally found our room.



 We headed down to the indoor/outdoor pool.  Thank goodness it was also indoors because it was like a blizzard outside.  But did you think a blizzard was going to stop us from swimming and sitting in the jacuzzi outside, because it didn't.(:  The kids thought it would be SOOO fun to sit in the snow and then jump in the pool.  It made me cold just watching them.(:



All snuggled in the hotel...NO, we did not all sleep that way!(:



 The next morning was the meet.  Kate was in the first session, and Lexi was in the second session.  Kate did really well, but I didn't know how she would place.  She ended up taking 1st in Floor routine and the vault, and 2nd on bars and beam.  She took 2nd overall, and I'm not going to lie, I got a little emotional. 



Born to be Wild...that's the truth.(:




Kinley, Lexi and Kate with their coach, Julie



I kept all of Katelynn's scores throughout the season.  If you look closely, you might see a 5.75 on bars...funny story....Kate was doing her bar routine, and she fell out of her front hip circle.  Rich told her to finish up and she took it literally.  She got back up on the bar and ended her routine.  She left out a huge chunk of it.  The funny part is, is that she didn't even realize she had done that.  The judges told her that if she would have finished, she would have gotten 3 points higher.  I am so proud of Katelynn for all the hard work she put into this season.  She seriously did great.  She just joined the gyms Exel team, so we have lots more competitions to come.(: